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Hepburn, Hardy and Baird, Fleming and Jardine, who also ranked 

 among the favoured correspondents and valued friends of the subject 

 of this memoir. 



All naturalists are deeply indebted to Mrs. Barwell-Carter for 

 this tribute of filial affection, and to Dr. Hardy for the care with 

 which the editorial supervision has been done. 



The Glasgow Catalogue of Native and Established Plants; 

 being a Contribution to the Topographical Botanv of the 

 Western and Central Counties of Scotland. (Glasgow : Peter 

 Ewing, The Frond, Uddingston, 1892.) 



Mr. Ewing, in this useful catalogue, has unfortunately adopted 

 an alphabetical arrangement. Many years ago Mr. H. C. Watson 

 rightly inveighed against such lists; and to be dragged from Anthyllis 

 to Apium and thence to Arum is most irritating. In the interest of 

 Scottish Topographical Botany, I have waded through the whole 

 list, but with many fits of impatience. It does not seem necessary 

 here to go into the numerous omissions (these I have personally 

 communicated to Mr. Ewing) of comital distribution, but actual 

 omissions of species occur under Arabis alpina (104), Euphrasia 

 gracilis (105), Festuca fallax (no), Hieracium nitidum (97), H. 

 strictum, Fr. (75), Kobresia caricina (98), and Linncza borealis (105). 

 Lycopodium " complanatum^ is an erroneous record for Lycopodium 

 alpinum var. decipiens, Syme, but Mr. Ewing is not answerable for 

 this. Nitetta batrachosperma (no), Orobanche omenta, Bert. (98), 

 Ranunculus petiolaris (97, 98, 104), Rubus Maasii (no), R. calvatus 

 (105), Urtica urens (no), Veronica saxatilis (97), may be named. 

 The botanists of Wester Scotland cannot do better than send Mr. 

 Ewing any additions ; as every one who has worked at comital 

 distribution knows how difficult it is to include all reliable records, 

 leaving out of question the numerous ones recorded on data often 

 very doubtful, and sometimes absolutely misleading and untruthful ! 



It should be explained that the numbers used by Mr. Ewing 

 are those of the comital areas of Mr. H. C. Watson's "Topo- 

 graphical Botanv," Ed. 2 ; and, being symbols only, great (are is 

 needed that they are accurately stated — Arthur Benni i i. 



Naturalist's Map of Scotlam>. By J. A. Harvie-Brown and 



J. (i. Bartholomew. Large folding sheet in cloth case. 1893. 

 With four pages of Explanatory Note. Price 2s. 6d. on paper, 3s. 6d. 

 on cloth. 



Naturalists generally, and not merely those of Scotland, are laid 

 under considerable obligation by the publication of this map ; and 

 its authors (if we may so term them) are to be deservedl) 1 1 ngratulated 

 on having attained a maximum of usefulness with a mimimum 



-a< 1 ifi< e of clearness and legibility. 



They are to be congratulated on having included everything 

 with a genera] application that could be reasonably expected, and 



